Award-winning Los Angeles Times photographer Mark Boster captures the elegance, magic and mystery of the four seasons of Yosemite National Park in this new hardback book.

• More than 100 full color photos, 128 pages, hardcover
• Foreword by Robert Redford
• Includes four pages of the photographer’s tips and techniques
• Sample: from “Spring” introduction: “There are no false notes in the symphony that is spring in Yosemite. In Cook’s Meadow, the grasses that lay dormant through the winter begin their resurrection, pushing through layers of crusted snow. First one blade, then five, then twenty fight their way forward, eventually amassing to form a meadow of plush greenery.”
• Includes bonus DVD of the Sundance Film Festival Official Selection documentary classic, Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven, narrated by Redford.

About the Author

Mark Boster has been a member of two Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning teams and has won numerous other photography awards in his 28 years with the newspaper. He grew up in Southern California and has spent much time in Yosemite as a child and an adult.

Bonus Material

Includes DVD of the classic documentary, “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven,” narrated by Robert Redford. DVD is embedded inside the back cover.

Journey to the Ring pairs Phil Jackson, the NBA’s most successful coach, and Andrew D. Bernstein, the NBA’s Senior Director of Photography, in an exciting, behind-the-scenes re- creation of the the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2009-10 championship season.

Jackson, coach of eleven NBA championship teams, gives insight into last season’s games, practices, his players, what he is saying in the huddle and more. His narrative adds an eye for detail, allowing fans to learn not only how the Boston Celtics tried to stop Kobe Bryant in the Finals but why something is written on a shoe or how players practice pre-game rituals. The Lakers coach does not spare his dry wit, even for occasions such as the White House visit with the president.

Having long built a trust with the NBA’s biggest stars, Bernstein is given access to the Lakers’ practices, team planes, training room, coach’s office, game-day meetings and off- the-court lives, from Ron Artest’s touch football game on the beach and Lamar Odom’s poolside lounging at home to volunteer work with children and Chef Phil preparing a Jackson family Thanksgiving dinner. There is no shortage of game action, with commentary by Jackson.

What sets Journey to the Ring apart is the deep appreciation Jackson and Bernstein share for the depth of black and white photography which is elegantly reproduced here in four-color black and white processing.

The Los Angeles Lakers, 2009 and 2010 NBA Champions and one of the most storied and illustrious franchises in the National Basketball Association, celebrate 50 years in Los Angeles in 2010. Since moving from Minneapolis in 1960, pioneering the NBA s expansion to the West Coast, The Lakers have won 11 NBA Championships, 25 Western Conference/Division titles, and 21 Pacific Division titles, and finished in the playoffs all but four seasons in the last half century. Some of the greatest players in NBA history have worn the Lakers jersey including Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Gail Goodrich, James Worthy and four of the NBA s Most Valuable Players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. Seven LA Lakers were inducted into the Hall of Fame, as were head coaches Bill Sharman, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson. The team holds the record for the longest consecutive win streak in professional sports (33) and several NBA records including the most regular season wins and highest winning percentage over the past three decades. The Los Angeles Lakers: 50 Amazing Years in the City of Angels takes a look back at the heartbreaking rivalry with the Boston Celtics in the 60s, fast-break Showtime basketball of 80s, and dominance as four-time NBA champions this past decade. The story is told in more than 300 archival photos from Getty Images and in stories from the award-winning Los Angeles Times sports staff, including columns from the late Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Murray, with a foreword by Phil Jackson.